Microsoft AI tools to take down Windows support scam masterminds While Microsoft is encouraging users to get its latest Office suite by subscribing to Office 365 (consumer and/or business), those who shun subscriptions can still buy the latest bits. A one-time purchase of Office 2016 - for either Windows PCs or Macs - costs $149 for the Office Home & Student; $229 for the Office Home and Business; and $399 for Office Professional. The boxed copies of both the Windows PC and Mac versions of Office 2016 are both available through Microsoft's online and brick-and-mortar stores as of today, September 22. (I asked if they also were for sale via other retail outlets, but no word back from Microsoft.) Office Home & Student 2016 includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote 2016.
If you see The latest desktop version of Office, then you have an Office subscription assigned correctly. If you don't see The latest desktop version of Office, contact your admin or go to the Office websites: Assign or remove licenses. So you have your shiny OS X connected to a VPN, good deal! The problem is, you can’t connect to any of the servers and workstations on the VPN. We can tell OS X to check the VPN connection first by giving it a higher priority than the other network connections on your Mac.
Office Home & Business 2016 includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote and Outlook 2016. The Professional version includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access. The Office 2013 version of Windows cost $140 for Home & Student, $220 for the Home & Business edition and $400 for Office 2013 Professional. Home & Student 2011 cost $120 and $200 for Home & Business. A subscription to Office 365 Personal - which includes Office 2016 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access - for installation on one PC or Mac (plus one phone) is. A subscription to Office 365 Home, which includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, OneNote, Outlook, Publisher and Access, for installation on up to five PCs/Macs and five phones - is $.
Office 365 business subscriptions, some but not all of which include rights to download Office apps to local machines,. The 'perpetual'/boxed Office 2016 releases represent a 'snapshot in time' of features. In other words, these versions won't be updated multiple times per year, unlike the Office releases that users obtain via Office 365 Personal, Home or Business subscriptions. When Microsoft made in July, officials said the company planned to make available a non-subscription/boxed copy of the new suite in September.
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And if you do some searching out in the rest of the world, you will find plenty of 10.12.4 users talking about this problem. It started before 10.12.4, but was not as bad. Versions of Sierra before 10.12.4 would cause some halting behavior, but recovered quickly and connected. But Norton is just unusable with Sierra 10.12.4. I did an uninstall and reinstall with tech support, and the computer worked fine for about an hour or so before all the random and chaotic app online disconnections happened. The computer also works great without Norton installed. Turning off the 'Connection Blocking' setting under the firewall does NOT fix the issue.
Even with 'Connection Blocking' turned off, the performance of the computer is still affected. Connection of browsers to sites is halting and slow, very slow. Connections online of other apps are slow and delayed. With 'Connection Blocking' turned on, it is far worse. Some apps will be totally unusable, and it changes. Some apps can then connect, while others are then affected and can not connect.
It is very strange and changing. I can not see a pattern, it seems to be random and chaotic. So even with 'Connection Blocking' set to off, the performance of the computer is still affected. A few days ago, I was working with Tech Support on this, and we did a super complete uninstall of Norton, and then reinstalled Norton. It was set up with 'Connection Blocking' to 'on'. The computer worked great for about 2 hours. I did two complete system scans, and connection of apps online was very fast, as if Norton wasn't even there.
Then it started having problems, and made the computer unusable. I turned off 'Connection Blocking' and other firewall protections, and the computer is usable, but still halting online connections. I think 'Safe Web' might have something to do with that. Norton will not let me turn off 'Safe Web', it turns 'Safe Web' back on immediately when I switch it off. And make sure you also consider the Norton browser web extension. Geoff B, thanks for letting us all know that turning off the scanning compressed documents feature has a positive effect. That could be the secret to solving this problem.
At least the programers will know where to look when it comes to analyzing the millions of lines of code that comprises NIS. While you personally did not find a cure to this disease you might have found the loose joint responsible for breaking this program. Until it is fixed I would prefer to preserve the ability on my computers to scan compressed files because once I've opened any infected but unscanned file my Mac could be finished! So for the time being I am back to running NIS on Mac OS Sierra 10.12.3 on three machines with no problems at all so far. Try to keep in mind, everyone, that fixing this problem could take weeks and / or months to accomplish.
Knowing this, everyone should pick a long term solution that they are comfortable with and patiently wait for the inevitable repair! The only functionality I have left turned on is Safe Web, Automatic and Idle Scans. Otherwise, I am afraid to touch NIS. NIS does report that it has completed Idle Scans. Interesting since it will not invoke a manual Scan anymore.
The App Store and Mail are two apps that seem to be hobbled the most, almost always taking a long time to go online, and then randomly going offline. I have not added or changed anything other than updating to Mac OS Sierra 10.12.4 to bring about these issues. Keep reporting all anomalies, symptoms, etc. Here so hopefully it can be compiled to help figure this out.
Norton people, post questions here, perhaps ask people to do tests. Hi everyone, Thank you for your patience. While our engineering team investigates this issue, Could you please follow the below instructions and see if it resolves or reduces connectivity issue?. Open Norton program. Click on Advanced Pillar.
Under the Protect My Mac. Disable Idle Scans. Reboot the Mac Once the mac reboots.
Check if Idle Scan is still disabled. Now please check for the connectivity issues (launch browser and access internet).
If you still face the issue, Please reboot again. What's new here? Norton, any progress? I have some interesting observations.
In the Advanced - Firewall panel, I went into the Application Blocking option by clicking on the button with the wrench and screwdriver. That then opens a panel that can be populated with apps that access the internet, with the option to allow or block that app. In the past, I never populated this panel.
So now I have this panel populated with apps that I guess are now scrutinized by NIS. With all these apps now listed in that panel, the performance of the computer is MUCH better, not perfect, not as if NIS is transparent, not as if NIS was not installed, but much better.
Also, if an app tries to access the internet and it is not in this list, a popup window will ask if you want to allow or block that app. I think that app is then added to the panel list under Application Blocking. So by adding apps to this list, the performance of the computer has gotten much better, but still not completely right. The computer can not do Scans, that option is always red in the NIS window, and I can not manually invoke a scan. Live Update seems to work better and faster. In the Protect My Mac window, I have all Scan options turned on, and in the Firewall window I have all options turned on, and I have populated the Application Blocking/Allow panel with apps. Populating that Application Blocking/Allow panel with apps has helped the performance of the apps in getting online and staying online.
There is still some occasional halting or delays, I sometimes have to restart, but nowhere near as bad or as often as without the Application Blocking/Allow panel populated with apps. The App Store, iTunes and Twitter are now the apps most likely (more often) to have connection/online issues. So I now have everything turned on in the Protect My Mac and Firewall options, the Application Blocking panel is now populated with a list of apps and the computer runs much better. Live Update works, or appears to work. The bad is that scans do not seem to be working and they can not be manually invoked, hence Security and Scans stay in red, and there is still unacceptable app connection/online issues.